mZuzek said:
This isn't true, it was a mistranslation. They only said they had ideas/plans for sequels. Either way, personally I'm not too happy about this news. On the one hand, it probably confirms an Astral Chain sequel eventually? Maybe not, cause nothing Nintendo does makes any sense, but anyways, a sequel was always likely to happen. The other hand bothers me more, and it's just that I'd much rather have Platinum owning the IP than Nintendo, because Nintendo makes... questionable decisions, to say the least. Hopefully Platinum continues to develop whatever new games come from this franchise, and also have the artistic freedom to do what they feel is right. |
Not necessarily disagreeing on this point, but I don't see how it makes sense to say that in comparison to PlatinumGames, who has recently made decisions such as a kickstarter campaign for their finished game that they then didn't get copies out to backers for months and months after the date they were supposed to receive them (with no updates for a long time on whether they were even coming despite the game being out) and who have been developing so many games simultaneously that they haven't been able to put out more than 2 or 3 major releases in the last like 7 years, despite having announced a ton of future projects that likely won't be out for years.
Nintendo are the ones who asked Platinum to make Astral Chain in the first place, so them owning the IP in full now only means they probably have plans to continue the series and Platinum may not be able to take on that project for a long time. I could see them developing it themselves or asking for a smaller team from Platinum to co-develop the project if possible since Platinum is currently biting off far more than they can chew. Or if I'm completely wrong about that, they can still ask Platinum to make a sequel or vice versa and both parties would probably be cool with that. If Nintendo didn't care about the franchise whatsoever, they wouldn't have done this.
